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You can safely install Mozilla with other Internet client
software, such as Netscape Communicator, Firefox, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, and Opera. Mozilla can
import user data from other Internet clients; however,
import may not work if you uninstalled the client first.
If you wish to migrate from another Internet client to Mozilla, we recommend
that you uninstall the client after you have both installed Mozilla
and have migrated your user data. For more details, read
Migrating from another Internet client.

Note:
To avoid incompatibility problem with previous versions, the Mozilla
installer will prompt you to delete the install directory if it is not empty.
Answer NO if you put your profile or other personal files in the install directory,
otherwise the files will be deleted. Users who put profiles in the default location
are not affected.

Do NOT share profiles between Mozilla and Netscape 6 or 7.
Mozilla and Netscape 6 or 7 share the same profile registry and directory.
However, a profile created by one may be incompatible with another.
Mozilla automatically uses your Netscape 6 or 7 profile unless you have
multiple profiles, in which case Mozilla prompts you to choose a profile.

Before installing a new version of Mozilla, you should uninstall
your previous version first. If you have a third-party extension
installed, particularly the spell checker, you
should also completely delete your Mozilla install directory before
making a new install.
Do not install over an old Mozilla version.

Following the uninstall instructions in this document should not
affect your profile data (unless your profile files are in a custom
location).

System recommendation

This section lists recommended hardware and software
configuration for installing Mozilla.
As with any other software, a faster processor
and/or additional memory may increase performance.

Quick Launch

Quick Launch allows you to open Mozilla
quickly. When Mozilla uses Quick Launch, a Mozilla icon
is present in the system tray (near the clock)

You can open Navigator by double clicking on the icon. To open a
different component (such as Mail & Newsgroups or Composer), right-click
the icon and choose the component from the context menu.

During installation, you have the option of enabling or disabling
Quick Launch. If enabled, Quick Launch loads part of Mozilla into memory
when your computer starts up (and each time Mozilla first starts up).
Quick Launch keeps Mozilla in memory even after you close all Mozilla
windows so you can quickly re-open Mozilla as needed. If your computer
is low on memory, you may want to disable Quick Launch.

To disable Quick Launch, right-click on the Mozilla
icon in the system tray and choose "Disable Quick Launch" in the context
menu.

To exit Quick Launch and Mozilla completely:

Close all Mozilla windows.

Right-click on the Mozilla icon in the system tray and
choose "Exit Mozilla" from the context menu.

Java, Plug-ins, and Other Extras

Java

To run Java applets, you must install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
version 1.4.1 or later.
If you already have the JRE on your system, the setup program should recognize
it.
If you need to download the JRE, you can find it at:
http://java.sun.com

Plug-ins and download managers

Installing Address Book Palm Sync

To be able to sync between Mozilla’s address book and
your Palm, you need to enable the Mozilla Palm Sync conduit.
To do that, open the Start Menu, select Programs, select Mozilla, and
choose the Address Book Palm Sync Install item.
Note that if you set up your Palm to sync its address book
with Mozilla, the address book will no longer sync with the Palm Desktop.

Once you have done this you can connect your Palm device and press the
HotSync button on your Palm cradle. This should bring up the HotSync Manager
dialog on your desktop and should start Mozilla. Once synchronization is
complete, close and reopen Mozilla, and open the Mozilla Address Book to
confirm that the synchronization was successful.

Uninstalling Mozilla

To uninstall Mozilla, open the Control Panel, open
Add Remove Programs, and choose Mozilla 1.x
from the list.
Note uninstalling Mozilla does not remove your profile
data.

If the disk image doesn't mount automatically,
double-click on the .dmg file to mount it.
If that fails, and the file does not look like a disk
image file, do a Show Info on the file, and, in
the Open with application category, choose
Disk Copy.

Open the disk image, and drag the Mozilla icon to where you want
to install Mozilla. We recommend that you copy it to the Applications
folder.

Eject the disk image.

To start Mozilla, open the folder where you installed Mozilla and
double click the Mozilla icon.

Note:
Certain ATI video drivers are not compatible with
Mozilla and may lead to crashes.
If you are experiencing crashes and you use an ATI video driver
you may be able to workaround the problem by setting your screen
to Thousands of colors rather than Millions.
You may also try getting the latest ATI driver at
http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

Note:
Do not disable extensions before installing Mozilla. Doing so may
cause installation problems.

Starting Mozilla

You can drag the Mozilla icon from the install folder to your dock
to have it easily accessible at all times. You might also wish to select
Mozilla as your default browser in the Internet system preferences pane
(under the Web tab).

Java and Plug-ins

Mozilla uses Internet plug-ins and Java already installed on
your system. No special work is required.

Note: These instructions use the bash shell. If you're not using
bash, adjust the commands accordingly.

To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, follow these
steps:

Create a directory named mozilla1.x
(mkdir mozilla1.x) and change
to that directory (cd mozilla1.x).

Download the installer package (called
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.x-installer.tar.gz)
to the mozilla1.x directory.

Change to where you downloaded the package
(cd mozilla1.x) and decompress the archive
file with the following command:

gunzip -dc moz*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

(This places the installer in a sub-directory named
mozilla-installer.)

Change to the mozilla-installer directory
(cd mozilla-installer) and run the
installer with the ./mozilla-installer command.

Follow the instructions in the install wizard for installing
Mozilla

To start Mozilla, change to the install directory and run the
./mozilla command.

Note: you must run Mozilla at least once to complete
the installation process. If a different user (other than the
person who installed the program) runs the program first, a core
dump will occur.

Installing RPM builds

The Red Hat RPM builds are created to work with the default
Red Hat 7 and Red Hat 8 installations. Using these RPMs on SuSE requires
installation of the gdk-pixbuf package.

Multi-user installs

To install Mozilla for multiple users on Linux, perform an installation
as described above. Then, create the following script in your Mozilla
directory, make it executable
(chmod u+x <scriptname>), and run it as root.
Do not run this program as su[do] root.

Java

To run Java applets, you must install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
version 1.4.1 or later (1.4.2 recommended).
To enable Java for Mozilla, put a symlink to
java2/plugin/i386/ns610/libjava.oji.so
in your plugins directory, e.g.:

Mozilla can import data directly from other popular Internet
clients such as Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, and Eudora.
Mozilla can also import data in several standard file formats,
so migrating from other client software is also possible.

Mozilla co-exists well with other Internet programs,
so uninstalling them is unnecessary.

If you have Netscape Communicator 4.5 or later installed,
Mozilla automatically converts the default profile
(but except for address books) for use with Mozilla.

Note: converting Communicator profiles requires
that Communicator is still installed on your computer. If you
have already uninstalled Communicator, reinstall it again so
you can convert your old profiles. After you have converted your
old profiles, you can uninstall Communicator.

Importing address book

To import your address book from your Communicator profile, first
export it in the LDIF format. To do this:

Open Address Book in Communicator.

In Address Book, open the File menu and choose Export.

In the Export dialog, choose type LDIF (*.ldif) .

Type in an identifiable filename that will be used as
the address book’s name upon import.

Save the file.

Close Netscape Communicator.

To import the LDIF file to Mozilla, follow these steps:

In Mozilla, open the Windows menu and choose Address Book

In Address Book, open the Tools menu and choose Import... .

In the Import dialog, select Address Books and click Next.

Select Text file (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt) and click Next.

In the file picker dialog, choose the LDIF file you just exported.

You should now see the Address successfully imported from Text file
message.

Converting additional profiles

To convert an additional Communicator profile for use with
Mozilla, first open the Profile Manager. If Mozilla is already
running, open the Tools menu and choose Switch Profiles...;
otherwise:

It is worth repeating that
you should not share profiles between Mozilla and
Netscape 6 or 7.

AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail

You can use Mozilla's mail client to access AOL Mail. To set
up your AOL account on Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups, create a
IMAP mail account, set the incoming server to imap.aol.com,
and set the outgoing server to smtp.aol.com. For accounts with
AOL outside of U.S. and CompuServe 2000, see
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/#foreign
for server addresses. For instructions on how to set up an IMAP account,
consult Mozilla's on-screen Help.

Netscape 6 and 7 has Netscape WebMail integrated
into its mail client. Mozilla does not have such integration, but
you can access Netscape WebMail via the Web at
http://webmail.netscape.com.

Mozilla cannot import data from AOL directly. To import mail
saved on your computer (Filing Cabinet) and addresses from AOL,
you must use third-party utilities to
export your data in formats Mozilla can import. You may try
the utilities listed in:

Note: importing settings, mail, and addresses
from Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express requires that the program
is still installed on your computer.
You may uninstall Outlook or Outlook Express afterwards.

Note: Mozilla does not support special characters
(e.g. / and #) in mail folders. If you receive the following error:
Unable to import mailboxes, cannot create proxy object for destination mailboxes,
then open Outlook (or Outlook Express) and rename your folders.
Then try importing again.

Hotmail

Mozilla is not integrated with Hotmail, but you can access your Hotmail
account via the Web:
http://www.hotmail.com

Note: Mozilla does not support special character
(e.g. / and #) in mail folders. If you receive
Unable to import mailboxes, cannot create proxy object for destination mailboxes
error, open Eudora and rename your folders. Then try importing again.

From your old mail client, export your mail in standard Unix
mail box (.mbx) format. After the file is saved,
remove the file extension if there is any; for example, if
the filename is oldmail.mbx, change it to oldmail .

The filename of the exported file must not have any special
character such as / or #.

This section provides troubleshooting tips to frequently encountered
problems during installation. Not all known problems are listed here.
For additional help please read the release notes for your Mozilla
version.

I cannot install Mozilla on Mac OS X

Make sure that extensions are not turned off. The
QuickTime extension must be on.

I cannot uncheck optional components during installation

If you are installing to a directory where another version
of Mozilla was already installed, then every component you
have installed becomes a required component. To remove optional
component such as Chatzilla, uninstall first and then install
again.

If your Palm software is not installed in C:\Palm, then
open the file with a text editor to set the proper path. Note that
the path you specify is within " " and for each directory separator
use two \\ for each \.

Now go to Windows explorer and double click on this file. This
should display a message saying Information in this file has been
successfully entered into the registry.